BREAKING NEWS! Senate Votes to Repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell Bill 63 - 33!

@benschwartzy retweeted by scharpling
Glad to see #DADT repealed for the US Military. Hoping it can be repealed next in the Republican Party.

I think that this will turn out okay.

If sexual tension is detrimental to our ability to wage war on the front lines, why wouldn't a better solution be to eliminate the source of tension rather than make sure it's effects are spread evenly?

It's entirely possible and quite probable that with time, the tensions in the more open environment to which this repeal will lead will work themselves out, but what McCain was arguing is that the consequence of this tension on the battlefield is too great to rely on time and communication to sort out.

[On what experience with commanding openly gay soldiers are you basing this opinion?

mcain should just be happy the votes aren't by a show of hands

all those in favour raise your hands
all those opposed raise your hands
senator mcain, are you abstaining?

McCain can't raise his hands because he was tortured in the service of his country and he is permanently disabled as a result.

And yet he was more then willing to throw fellow comrades under arms, many of them also bearing wounds gotten in servicing the country, under the bus for his own damn gain.

You appear to be very confused ... unless, of course you are really talking about John Kerry.

True, so condemn his actions. Making fun of his disability strikes he as beyond the pale.

It was hard enough running a Battalion, Regiment or large ship like an aircraft carrier in operational situations: it will be much harder now.

he was tortured in the service of his country

Finn dAbuzz wrote:

If sexual tension is detrimental to our ability to wage war on the front lines, why wouldn't a better solution be to eliminate the source of tension rather than make sure it's effects are spread evenly?

It's entirely possible and quite probable that with time, the tensions in the more open environment to which this repeal will lead will work themselves out, but what McCain was arguing is that the consequence of this tension on the battlefield is too great to rely on time and communication to sort out.

Our armed forces are already co-ed, so I think the old fashioned sexual tension between men and women already drowns out any effect from having homosexuals in uniform. If the Navy can run a co-ed ship with hundreds or thousands of sailors of both sexes in close proximity, I think the Army can have a patrol with a gay guy in it. As for McCain, his attempt to shift the goal posts just out of reach every time one of his arbitrary hurtles is breached shows that he would grasp any excuse to block homosexuals from serving. Today it is tension on the battlefield, tomorrow it would be something different. The reality is that this policy is wrong and has always been wrong. We are on a course to make it right and that is a very good thing.

Today it is tension on the battlefield, tomorrow it would be something different.

Wow! this is huge! I hardly believe it - I guess the fence hangers finally saw the inevitability (or, more likely, the political expediency). John McCain is below despicable.

Yes, you must remember that Gob1 volunteered for THREE tours in the illegal invasion of Vietnam. One tour just didn't provide him enough satisfaction in bombing the **** out of a poor defenseless little Asian country.